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Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Rich Hobson

"I'd never experienced heartbreak before." How Coheed And Cambria's The Suffering helped Claudio Sanchez translate personal turmoil into a pop metal banger (via space operas and Ray Harryhausen)

Coheed And Cambria press 2005.

Heartbreak fertile soil when it comes to songwriting, and millions of songs have been dedicated to the wars and woes of love. But for Claudio Sanchez, creator of the galaxy-spanning Amory Wars series that’s been told across comic books, graphic novels and just about every album his band Coheed And Cambria have released over the past 20-plus years, surely a bunch of songs about failed relationships would seem, well… pedestrian?

“Every Coheed record stems from a personal place,” the singer counters. “I was afraid to be a frontman – and still am, to a degree. The Amory Wars concept is just a way for me to exorcise my truth and be more honest.”

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